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FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting July 25, 2014

News deck. We begin now with a fox urgent. Were waiting for major white house meeting on the Immigration Crisis at our border to now wrap up. Anytime now were expecting to hear president obamas comments. He just sat down with several Central American leaders. The goal of the meeting, we understand is to convince the leaders to do more to stop the children from making the long, dangerous trip, to enter our country illegally. According to government figures some 57,000 unaccompanied minors have illegally crossed our border since last fall, putting enormous strains on towns, cities, military bases, trying to house them all. Up here on the wall, mostly guatemala, el valve el salvador and hon hon dura. The president s are meeting with president obama. White house Officials Say one proposal would give emergency Refugee Status to children coming from honduras particularly. Thats because that country is one of the most dangerous nations in the world and gangs are known to force children to join or else. That proposal is similar to a plan from the republican senators from arizona, john mccain and jeff blake. Still, critics slammed the idea saying granting children Refugee Status would only cause more immigrants illegally to flood the border. And by the way. Congress has only days left to strike any sort of a deal on this because lawmakers are head it out of town for their fiveweek summer break. Wendell goeler at the white house. Any sign congress can get anything done quickly . White House Press Secretary says his cynical side may be showing but thinks theres a chance the lawmakers may go home without doing anything. The president s supplemental aid request for the border and reform authorize foe Veterans Administration system are priorities about its possible neither get done. Officials are considering implementing the Honduran Refugee Program under mr. Obamas executive authority to keep kids from making a long trip on which many are abused. Our broader intent is a broad message of deterrence that people would see that there is an organized process if they feel like they have a legitimate asylum claim. They dont need to make the dangerous journey to the u. S. And they can be processed in their own country. Vicepresident biden had lunch with the Central American leaders who say the u. S. Bears some responsibility because our appetite for Illegal Drugs and sale of weapons to Central Americans are producing the crime the kids are running from. The president is meeting with the leaders right now. What are republicans saying about this border aid request at this point . The house has cut it by twothirds. Even the senate cut it considerably, and the senate is under the control of democrats. Some house members say there shouldnt be any additional aid granted. Republican lawmakers are concerns the money wouldnt be spent as they intend, and theyre saying mistrust of mr. Obama is affected by and might be ignored by the obama white house. The president , using republican inaction to defend acting on his own executive authority. Immigration activists believe he will move to reduce deportations bus mr. Obamas aides wont say if thats accurate. Theres a chance that meeting will wrap up and if it does and the news warrants, we kole wallace is here from washington. What is it like inside that meeting right now . Just yesterday the honduran president criticized the white house immigration policy, calling it ambiguous, without clarity. I wonder what the mood is inside that meeting right now . Well, with three president s from Central America and president obama and some of them dont speak english and the president , dont think speaks fluid spanish. My guess is its fairly formal. Not terrifically with a bark off. Having said that i kind of agree with what josh ernest said. I think its a real chance you could get nothing out of all of this. The president is calling for 3. 7 billion, both in humanitarian aid and beefed up enforcement the democrats are calling for 2. 7 billion, and the latest word out of the house they may want less than a bill, nothing for humanitarian aid. And thats just a possibility they wont be able to get together and congress will go on a fiveweek break. And then you also have the president now talking about by executive action, just kind of Refugee Status for 500 of these unaccompanied minors, to get Refugee Status from honduras. 500 when were talking about 57,000 since october is really a drop in the bucket, and thats only going to add to suspicion by republicans that whatever they pass the president will do what he wants, will enforce it or not, and by executive authority. So that lessens their feel that i go have to play ball with him. And not just suspicions by republicans but the country. You look at recent polling, chris, and people are establishing this very strong feeling that the president does what he wants when he wants, and my question would be, why did it take so long to get to this point where president obama has three countries with the most people fleeing to sit down . Well, its a good question, and the fact is that there was a report in the paper earlier this week that there were officials in the state department and in immigration and Border Security telling the white house, a year ago, that they thought this was going to be a coming storm of growing immigration by these unaccompanied minors and they kind of dismissed it as a local problem, not something that would be this flood of 57,000 since last october. So they, as in a lot of other areas, were way behind the ball on this. Im sure im not alone in asking this. Other countries have to be watching. And thinking, the United States cant even secure its own borders. Make its time to hop, skip and get over there. This could be an invitation from around the world to people we dont want coming here, like terrorists. Obviously thats a concern. Its a little bit different because in this case, its not that the unaccompanied minors are getting through and we cant detect them. In fact the first thing they want when they get across the border is to be picked up by American Security because they think that theyll be allowed to stay here and given safe passage, and a lot of cases they are because theyre sent to live with families or to various shelters and told to show up for a hearing weeks or months from now, and they just dont show up and become part of the huge number of millions of illegals in this country. Terrorists would be a somewhat different case but doesnt increase any sense of security about our border and our immigration policy when this kind of thing is happening and you have the president and the senate and the house and, as i say, the end result of all of this may be a big fat zero when they begin their fiveweek fiveweek recess next week. Of course, my big question for wendell would be for the white house, can you get anything done that quickly when we havent seen washington move at more than a molasses pace in the near memory. Chris, wallace, thank you very much. We rand to remind everybody well be watching this as news breaks in terms of getting either some live reporting from web wendell goaler or videotape of what went on in that meeting. Chris will have more on the immigration debate on fox news sunday. Watch for that. Hell talk with republican congressman of louisiana who is about to become House Majority whip. Chris will have the latest on the crisis in the middle east. With a member of the Plo Executive Committee and ron coarser, the israeli ambassador to the unites nations who we have seen speak at the u. N. This week. This weekend on your local fox station. Check your tv lightings in your area. Israel has reportedly rejected a cease fire proposal from secretary of state john kerry. The about big breaking news store were watching, we just heard from secretary kerry, who says he is still trying to negotiate a oneweek truce. He wanted to hit the because button in the fighting between hamas and the israeli military. It did not work. No cease fire. Israel rejecting that. Details on why that is. A live update from the middle east. Stay close. Ever dream of being the hero . Hey, you guys mind warming this fella up for me . Im gonna go back down, i saw some recyclables. Be him with verizon xlte. Find a car service. Weve doubled our 4g lte bandwidth thanks in cities coast to coast. 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Israeli Officials Say they deployed more Security Forces along the west bank and upupafter palestinian leaders called for a day of rage. Conor powell is live. What made israel reject the ceasefire suggestion . Reporter for a few hours today it seemed as if there was a reel potential for a cease fire and many people thought it would be hamas that rejected it. The cease fire seemed to be a sevenday cease fire that would allow israeli troops to stay in gaza. That seemed something that would be completely rejected by hamas. Hamas said nothing all day. I it was actually the Israeli Security cabinet that rejected the cease fire today. One israeli official say it was basically hamas cease fire put forward by the United States and qatar and turkey and the unites nations. Israel feeling they can get better terms in a few days most likely so at least for the next sort of 24, 48 hours, we expect the fighting to continue here. Secretary kerry did say that he feels like he has a framework in place for a cease fire, that they need to got at the terminology right. So he did leave the door open there could be a cease fire and continues to be talks and discussions about this, but for at least the near term, the next 2448 hours, seems the violence here is just going to continue on. So, were seeing this video of these protesters in the west bank. Whats happening there . Reporter so, we have had the fighting here now in gaza for 18 days, and for the last sort of 2448 hours, we have seen increased protests and fighting by the palestinians that are in the west bank. Huge protests last night. Thousands of people turned out. Went to a checkpoint, trying to go into jerusalem. We understand in the last 24 hours five palestinians have been killed and theres been heavy fighting, hundreds or so injured. Theyre calling for a day of rage. So the anger in the Palestinian Community not only in gaza but also in the west bank, really growing, and this has the potential for things to get out of hand as were talking bat cease fire here. If things dont calm down here in gaza, things can get really out of hand in the west bank, which will sort of exacerbate the ongoing problems here. Conor paul, reporting live. Thank you very much. The top spy in norway says a group of terrorists is on its way to his country to carry out an attack. He says they concretely named norway as the target. He says reliable information indicates the wouldbe atakes are coming from syria and the threats are imminent. Of all the countries in europe, norway is the far fest this from seare. U. S. Intelligence Officials Say the threat is greater and more complex. The number of foreign fightes in the Syrian Civil War has exploded. Some 12,000 of them. That includes more than 100 americans joining the fight, as we reported before, intelligence official says the rebel fighters al qaeda offshoot to make bombs that are easieribun]z get past airport security. The pentagon is calling it an escalation of the crisis in ukraine now. Officials say not only is russia firing on ukrainian targets inside that country, its also handing over more powerful weapons to the insurgents. That as some of our key allies getting ready to send in troops. The details. Stay close. Start a team. Join a team. Walk to end alzheimers. Visit alz. Org walk today. Were expecting some kind of information. What can help relieve the situation on our southern border with mexico where we have had tens of thousands of unaccompanied children coming across the border illegally, putting such a burden on different facilities and municipalities across the country. Well keep you posted when news breaks. For now, there is word a group of special forces could be in Eastern Ukraine by this weekend. The dutch telegraph newspaper is report thing netherlands is preparing to send its most elead soldiers to the malaysia air crash site to make sure investigators and officers on scene can do their job and survive it all. The paper is reporting military officials have cancelled leave for a number of commandos and have recalled others from africa. Australia is also announcing its going to send 100 Police Officers to europe to join the dutchled team. Our corporate cousin, sky news, is reporting the officers have arrived in the uk where theyre working with british soldiers. Still not clear whether the britts would seasoned anybody to inare ukraine. Otherwise, securing the site is no easy task. Pentagon Officials Say they have evidence that russia is firing on ukrainian targets from within russia. Shooting at the country next door. The russian military, not the rebels. This video shows this. Fox news cannot confirm it but pentagon says it has evidence that russia is also in the process of delivering more weapons to the rebels, specifically highcaliber rocket launching systems, and that delivery is, quote, imminent. Steve harrigan with the news live in a rebel stronghold. The city of donetsk. You just heard some fighting. What is happening . Reporter that shelling is happening on the outskirts of the city of one million people. A rebel stronghold, the ukrainian offensive trying to seal it off. Were hearing fighting perhaps it is from the russian side of the border. We cant be sure but the news not just from Ukrainian Government officials but from the u. S. State department as well. The assertion that russia is firing on ukrainian fors. Russian military, from inside russia, is really a gamechanger according to the head of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. You have a russian government that has made the conscious decision to use its military force inside of another sovereign nation to achieve its objectives. First time, i think, probably since 1939 or so thats been the case. General dempsey making the assertion that the use of direct intervention from the russian military, from russian territory, into the conflict could change the nature of the relationship between the United States and russia. Still you have the crash site in Eastern Ukraine. What is happening there . The fighting around the crash site, within 20 miles, has slowed down any real investigation to a halt. Some european observers were on the scene today and have uncovered more evidence as though identity of the passengers. Some passports and continue to find body parts as well. Another planeload of remains went to the netherlands today. Transfer should be completed by tomorrow. Back to you. Thank you very much. Lets bring in now retired u. S. Army Major General bob scales, fox news military analyst. General, i was reading your notes. Youre not buying any of this. What is your take . My take is that this is a psychological war, harris. The russians are trying continue nuisance world opinion. Theyre not trying to conquer Eastern Ukraine and trying to convince the world theyre the aggrieved party and if theyre shooting rockets and guns, the evidence is easy to gather and you dont have to rely on the nsa to get it. But for whatever reason, the western nations, the ukraines and the United States are not going the extra mile to prove to the russians that theyre the aggressors, not the ukrainians, and so in many ways, the russians are actually doubling down after the downing of this airliner, in an attempt to gain the emotional and psychological high ground and we should do the same. Whats interesting. I imagine it would be pretty easy to say where theyre coming from. I dont have the knowle

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