If they overrule the previous ruling if they okay what the irs has done providing subsidies to states that do not have their own exchanges it, well, it obviously changes the ruling from below and it might be a ruling that does not make it to the supreme court. We will see what happens. Keep you uptodate. That is the news break this morning out of washington. Jon striking back at the heart of isis. Fox news learning that a senior aide to the leader of that brutal terrorist group may have died in a us air strike. Good morn, welcome to happening now. On this thursday im jon scott. Im Heather Nauert in for jenna lee. Leaders talk about the future of nato and in face of russias aggression on ukraine and Terror Threat posed by isis. We have a lot of stuff going on. In a joint oped in times of london, president obama and british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron write this, if terrorists think we will weaken in the face of their threats they could knot be more wrong. Countries like britain and america will not be cowed by barbaric killers. Conor powell has more on a ire strike that may have killed a top terrorist leader. This was a us air strike and who was this guy . Reporter thats what we understand. The current u. S. Campaign of airstrikes in iraq against isis seem to be having some success. Arab media reporting that abu al siri was killed by airstrike. Little is known except he is syrian and key isis leader. He is believed to be a senior aid to abu albaghdadi the top isis leader. A leader calling al siri the right arm of baghdadi. They have not confirmed his death but it would be a significant victory if true. The pentagon has launched 124 airstrikes in iraq since the launching in early august. They destroyed weapons, Armored Vehicles and supply lines. Most importantly the airstrikes seemed to have move isis back away from iraqs capital, baghdad and also providing Iraqi Military breathing room to launch counterattacks and regroup. Remember earlier this summer the Iraqi Military was in disarray and dropping their weapons and fleeing, not fighting. That seems to have changed somewhat around baghdad and other parts, but, heather, everybody is saying in terms of military analysts and officials airstrikes are just the beginning. More has to be done against isis in order to push them out of iraq and sort of defeat them in their home base of syria. Heather . Conor powell in jerusalem, thank you very much. Very interesting story. Well see if we can get that confirmed if that guy was killed by us air strikes. Jon enduring image in our shared history. America and Great Britain united for a common cause. Ronald reagan, margaret thatcher, roosevelt and churchhill, with the world facing daunting new challenges what is natos role . Joined by Lieutenant Colonel bill cowan retired from the marine corps. He is a fox news military analyst. Lets start with the oped that president obama and Prime Minister cameron penned together in the london newspaper. They sugge there is no weakness, no, lack of resolve, when it comes to isis. Pretty good to read those words, bill . It is great to read it, jon. Almost wish we had seen a similar oped out of our own president here in the United States a couple months ago in fact. Im sure if isis takes a look at that oped, they may or may not, they will kind of chuckle and laugh. Because theyre not feeling real heat of United States, virtually any heat from the u. K. And certainly none from nato. Words are worth something but actions are worth a lot more. Jon also interesting they dont really talk about syria in that piece. Great, jon. I noticed that. That was one of the things that i wanted to say to you. They talk again about this all inclusive government in baghdad, in iraq as if somehow that is going to solve the isis or isil problem but we all know the head of the snake is over in syria. I found it very interesting syria is casually mentioned as a place of political instability but not as the place where real head of the snake and isis core leadership is we ultimately have to get. Jon talk about russia and its invasion of ukraine. Nato is getting together obviously today to meet, to talk about all of this. What, what should natos response be . I mean is there, is there anything other than than tougher sanctions that the Nato Alliance can do for ukraine . Perhaps providing more weaponry . Well, jon, you know that oped talks about natos continued to support, continued support to increasing capabilities of ukraine. But the fact of the matter is, the United States hasnt done anything to increase capabilities except send mres. Partner nation, germany provided some supply, some equipment. Reality is, russia is only going to pause, putin will really pause when he sees formidable ukrainian military, Ukrainian Army threat, facing him. And that is going to take a lot more equipment than the ukrainians have right now. Theyre certainly willing to fight for their own homeland. They cant fight overwhelming force like putin. Putin looks at oped piece. Slugs a little bit. Realizes there has not been real action to support ukraine. This multinational Rapid Response force that they talk about in the op he had piece is going to take forever to put together to define, to come up with the coordinating principles. So i dont think putins worried at you will. Jon i was going to say, matenato looks to america for leadership in many respects. Interesting that Angela Merkel, the Prime Minister of germany, has been more aggressive, more forceful i guess in dealing with this russian incursion than anybody else despite the business ties between germany and russia and despite the fact that, germany, since world war ii has been pretty reluctant to get militarily involved in places. Yeah, very interesting, jon. She is showing some true leadership right there we hope our own president and certainly the Prime Minister of the u. K. Is going to follow in line. But i think Angela Merkel and all germans remember much more carefully what russia did to them in world war ii. They remember the occupation of eastern germany for the many years they were there. They all realize in stark reality, stark terms, the threat posed by russia around the fact somebody has to stand up or russia will be on their doorstep again. Jon Lieutenant Colonel bill cowan, fox news military analyst. Thank you. Thank you. Jon. Talk about russia and also isis as western leaders deal with a growing threat from isis. Theyre casting a nervous glance at another country and that is afghanistan. Natos mission is winding down after 13 years of combat. Now the alliance make sure gains made by our troops are not lost. Chief washington correspondent james rosen is live for us at the state department. Hi, james. What are they planning to do . Reporter heather and jon, good morning. This summit of nato in wales stands to be the last one held with sizable contingent of u. S. Troops still deployed in afghanistan as the United States prepares to withdraw from the theater, where the war on terror began some 13 years ago. Just in the past couple of hours, at a celtic castle in wales, site of this years nato summit, president obama wrapped up a session devoted to the subject of afghanistan and future of u. S. And allied mission there. With only 2thousand u. S. Troops in theater, all set to come home by years end if a new Security Agreement is not signed, the coalition that counted 50 nations among its rank will shrink to 13 nations. Rebranded Resolute Support and support Afghan Security forces. Those forces face resilient taliban threat as evidence by the twin suicide bombings rocked capital city of southern afghanistans gazni province, killing 130 people, injuring another 130. Militants tried to storm one of the facilities after detonation. All 19 at attackers were reported killed. Further complicating afghanistans future the deadlock between the two president ial candidates whose Runoff Election in june is being contested. Secretary of state john kerry made two trips to afghanistan this summer to encourage the two men form a unit government pending exhaustive audit of voting. Neither man, surely will have impact on this countrys future is attending the nato summit. Afghanistan will be represented by minister of defense. Obviously there is ongoing process taking place. It is continuing. I think the preference of everybody would have been to see the process concluded. Reporter that may happen soon the revised results from the afghanistan elections are to be released september 10th, heather. James rosen at state department. Thank you. Jon new developments to bring you in case of a mother who drove her van into the ocean. She is charged with trying to kill her children. What her Attorney Says is really to blame for the incident. President obama getting some backup on recent comments he made. Who is defending him . As World Leaders meet to discuss conflicts in ukraine, iraq and syria. We want to hear from you. Do you think nato can come up with a united response to threats from isis as well as Vladmir Putin and russia . Our live chat up and running. Go to foxnews. Com happeningnow. Click on on americas asking d weigh in with your thoughts. Heather right now new details on stories were following this morning. A attorney for a South Carolina mother said she was disoriented due to low blood sugar when she drove her van into the ocean with her three children inside. Ebony wilkerson is accused of trying to kill all of her children. Her Health Records will be the focus of a hearing tomorrow. Teenagers challenging authorities once again at a tennessee detention center. Department of Children Services more than 20 boys breaking out of rooms attacking staff there. No one escaped the facility this time. This is the same place where more than 30 boys got away earlier this week. They say extra guard are now in place. David cassidy pleads guilty to a dwi buy from more than a year in up state new york. The Partridge Family star plea deal will call for hymn to do 50 hours of Community Service in his home state of florida. There he is. Jon Obama Administration clarifying recent comments on growing conflict in iraq and syria. Defense secretary chuck hagel, defending the president after critics say mr. Obama is too cautious going after isis. Secretary hagel says the pentagon is giving president obama options to quote, degrade and destroy the terrorists, not just contain them. Lets talk about it with ab stoddard, associate editor and columnist with the hill. Jonah goldberg, editoratlarge for nationalreview. Online and fox news contributor. Ab, why is it everybody in the administration seems to be talking tougher about isis than the president himself . Well that is an interesting question, jon. The president as we now know because fox news reported this a few days back, has been seeing warnings the strength, growing strength of isis, including, quote, unquote, granular intelligence in his president s Daily Briefing that he sees every single day and obviously the defense secretary chuck hagel is well aware of it. Other people throughout the administration echoing what the joint chiefs, chairman of the joint chiefs, and secretary hagel about said two weeks ago this is unprecedented threat yet president obama continues to even though say things like he did yesterday, the aim is to destroy and degrade he always walks it back. There is something in president obama where he truly doesnt have the stomach to say this could be a tough, long slog. It can not be contained. It is too dangerous and to really tell the American People just how threatening it is. Jon is the point, jonah, that he wants to wish all of this away . I think that is a big part of it. I think weve seen this pattern with president obama for a very long time, where he says what he has to say about afghanistan, about syria, about the irs scandal or benghazi. He says, he says what the political advisors tell him he has to say to make the issue go away and make reporters stop asking about it. And then, there is very little followthrough because, to back up what he says. And i think what were seeing with regard to isis, he keeps checking boxes on a list, saying words he thinks people want to hear, so they will stop talking about it. Because the overarching theme of his Foreign Policy all the time in office put Foreign Policy on the backburner. Get it out, off the front pages, off the news. He doesnt like talking about it. He doesnt like idea of a crisis and idea of committing american troops. He is spinning his wheels saying what he has to do to get the issue to go away and the issue wont go away. Jon i suppose he doesnt like talking about i, committing american troops when were a couple months away from Congressional Elections . Well, i mean thats true, but i also think president obama ran on ending war in iraq. He is, really sees as his legacy the fact that he end the war in iraq and in afghanistan. He is not, the concept were already back in escalating military operation within iraq and this is going to have to move over to syria attack isis is really unthinkable to president obama. What is so interesting is that yesterday in estonia he gave this speech, really giving his full, a fullthroated promise to defend the Baltic States against any nation, obviously russia, threatening their sovereignty and we would put American Military might behind a nato effort to keep their, preserve their independence. That is a huge promise. But its a commitment he made enthusiastically . Why . Because i think it will never have to be. But actual the idea of an escalating operation against isis one day could include boots on the ground looks much more likely and i think hes, he is torn over that. Jon jonah, we heard the Vice President talking about following isis to the gates of hell. Bret baier heard from one of our special operators who is very plugged into the community, apparently deployed over in iraq right now, who wrote back and said, how are we going to follow the isis to the gates of hell when we cant even leave our compound . Apparently they are feeling frustrated they have been put in defensive position and really arent doing the job they signed up for . Yeah, look, i mean it is welldocumented fact in the psychological literature that taking joe bidens statement the too seriously can get you into a lot of trouble. I think what joe biden is doing here, he is just, he is he is not listening to the president. He is thinking maybe im still going to run. He is talking tough. He is not setting policy. And i think this administration counts itself lucky if joe biden is not yelling get these squirrels off of me because he will say pretty much anything. I agree entirely with ab about the president s statements about nato. It was the mother of all red lines he laid down. And i think he thinks, he might be right, that it will never be tested but the really troubling question is, what if it is . If he doesnt back up that red line, then we are in really uncharted waters. Jon Vladmir Putin is certainly paying attention. A. B. Stoddard, jonah goldberg, thank you. Thank you. Squirrels, i like that one. That was interesting. Jon it is a great line but, these are some serious, serious items were talking about. Sometimes you just shake your head. Heather can we have a little bit of fun for just a second. Jon sure. Heather i know you love cats, right . If you have trouble sharing favorite cute cat video yesterday you were not alone. Big problems hitting major websites. Jon was upset about it. Here is the connection, were they all connected . We have a live update on that situation, affected a whole lot of people. Showing off the wonders of science. 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