Well you can try again tomorrow. Theres always tomorrow. Yeah, weve got a few more seconds. Set your dvrs so you never miss an episode of the five. Special report next. Jordan executes two terror prisoners, and its king vows an american old west Style Campaign of frontier justice against isis. This is special report. Good evening, im brett baier, welcome to washington. The world is still coming to terms with the horror it witnessed yesterday. The burning alive of a jordanian pilot by radical islamic terrorists. That video has prompted an outpouring of disgust and sympathy and also calls for blood by many in the middle east. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight. Shepard smith in amman, jordan with what the people are saying
about their hero. Jennifer griffin at the pentagon but we begin with chief White House Correspondent ed henry and renewed questions about president obamas leadership in the fight against isis. Good evening, ed. Reporter good evening, bret. The horrific execution of the jordanian pilot was a gamechanger for King Abdullah whos signaling hes stepping up his efforts against the terror group but president obama is signaling status quo for the white house strategy. President obama went forward with his schedule today as if it was business as usual, meeting with dreamers to tout his executive action on immigration and throw out another veto threat to republicans. And i am confident that i can uphold that veto. Reporter press secretary josh earnest would not say whether the administration supports King Abdullahs decision to kill two terrorists held in jordanian prisons. I dont have a specific reaction to the news overnight that a couple of individuals who had been convicted of crimes related to terrorism, that they had been executed. Reporter republican john mccain charged thats a sign of
an administration whose strategy to degrade and destroy isis is failing. Let there be no doubt we still do not have a viable strategy to counter isil. If youre not winning a war, you are losing. Reporter mccain chaired the confirmation hearing for ash carter, the president s nominee to be the new defense secretary. Carter told senators isis is the most immediate threat to u. S. National interests and pushed back on mccains claim. I believe i understand our strategy. Reporter mccain fired off a letter signed by every republican and democrat on the Armed Services committee demanding the administration urgently provide more weapons to jordan. That the king told lawmakers yesterday he desperately needs to step up the campaign against isis. Yet after saying the president is iron clad in his support of the king earnest refused to say whether the president will back more military aid. Is there anything the president is willing to do to step up the campaign against isis at all from the white house . We have talked about how these kinds of ongoing efforts
are going to be difficult and that its going to be difficult to measure success or failure in oneday increments. What were focused on is longer term. Reporter critics believe the president should be leading that effort, and some suggest the strategy will not work without ground troops. Its not going to happen from the air. We have a consensus by all experts here in europe and the middle east, as long as we dont have an area inside syria or iraq and most likely from the jordanian borders on where youre going to have Free Syrian Army or free arabs against isis covered by an air force, this is not going to happen. Reporter late today the president did meet at the white house with Muslim Leaders but aides stress this was a broader conversation, not just about terror but they also talked about middle class economics as well as the president S Health Care law. Ed henry on the north lawn nu. One congressman says jordans king channelled american movie tough guy Clint Eastwood in vowing revenge for the killing. Such bravado is not uncommon for
the king who has a storied history of walking tall in a tough neighborhood. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin looks at the man and what the u. S. May be able to do to help him. Reporter King Abdullahs first public appearance after returning home to jordan was with the head of his military chief. Translator the response of jordan will be leader by the whole world. As we said yesterday, the response of jordan will be tough, earth shaking. Reporter after cutting short his trip to washington the king prepared to step up his air strikes. This as u. S. Officials confirmed that the United Arab Emirates had stopped flying combat missions over syria in december. Military sources say they fear a downed plane. Privately the uae has complained the u. S. Needs to position search and rescue assets closer to northern iraq. I dont think people should take away from that announcement that the commitment from the emirates and other arab countries in the region to this broader coalition has waned in any way. Reporter now King Abdullahhas vowed to take the lead. He is the 53yearold son of king hussein. He ascended to the throne on february 7th 1999, educated at deerfield academy, sandhearst and oxford as well as georgetown university. He demanded jordans special forces and is a cobra attack helicopter pilot. Retribution. He said there will be retribution from this. He actually even referenced unforgiven, the Clint Eastwood movie. Theyre going to increase people on the ground get more arab countries with them now and hopefully they will lead from the front and crush isis. I think thats whats happened here, at least that is what the king said that theyre going to do. Reporter as of february 2nd of the 2,264 air strikes carried out against isis, the u. S. Has conducted 81 of the strikes in iraq and syria. The arab members of the coalition have conducted just 19 of the air strikes according to centcom figures. The United States pledged aid to jordan. The king wants more military aid. In the short term he needs help. He intends to push back against isis, but he needs more fuel. He needs more bomb he needs more equipment he needs less bureaucratic red tape in washington that throws down getting these supplies to him. Reporter senior u. S. Defense officials tell us some in the military see the need to expedite jordans request for more sophisticated military equipment. Senate Armed Services chairman john mccain plemgdged to do more to fulfill the kings request blaming the frustration on a huge bottleneck in the state department. Jennifer, thank you. My colleague shepard smith, is in amman, jordan tonight. Shep, thanks for joining us. Tell us what youre seeing and hearing there. Reporter a bit of unity bret. Its a quiet city amman today. It has been tonight. Very much a sense of mourning. There were demonstrations as you saw this morning when the king returned to speak with his military chief. He has been very strong in his words and now here they wait for action. Of course there had been a divide in this nation and thats not to say that the kingdom is not still divided on some level. So many here are from the palestinian territories and see a divide with the United States and israel on one side and in some ways jordan on another. In addition, theres a sense that over time the jordanian people have been sort of left out of the mix here. Some saying isis is not our fight. Well, today in the media and even the Muslim Brotherhood came forward to say we are against isis this brutality cannot stand. We as jordanians must stand together. If that holds, its relatively new. If it stays in large percentages, the king may have all kinds of room to act. You know, shep a lot of people forget jordan doesnt have the Natural Resources that say, saudi arabia or uae or
kuwait has. They have got an economy that is really being strained by a refugee problem from syria that is huge. Reporter United Nations estimates 1. 3 million refugees. I think those close to the royal family here would suggest its a couple of hundred thousand more than that. No matter what the numbers, it is an extreme challenge for this nation to deal with. Its also been flying as jennifer mentioned, so many sorties over areas of trouble nearby, as many as any other nation, for instance, except the United States and syria. So when the king says we need bombs, we need help, we need assistance in cutting through the red tape, he means it. The question is whether there is a will and fortitude to get that sort of thing done. Whether the coalition can come together in such a way that jordan can lead from the front, as one of your interviews said and whether jordan can in the end, potentially at least, use some sort of Ground Forces. Theres some reporting from the Washington Post and beyond that that is under consideration here. Its widely believed to be a trial balloon. And if the king speaks tomorrow, one wonders if that might be a little tickle around the conversation. Yeah, is there a sense there early on that this is a turning point in this whole deal and that arab countries may join behind the king in a different formation of this coalition . Reporter theres a feeling that this could very well be a turning point. And the video that you see out of this region shows somewhat of a turning point. A sense of unity, pictures of unity that we havent seen before. With history as our guide though, often those pictures and those scenes are louder on the close heels of a disaster and a catastrophe like just happened with the murdering of this pilot. Whether that remains for days and weeks and months, long enough to the king to get this going, we dont know yet. Shep, as always thank you very much. Well check in throughout your trip there. Early thursday morning there in amman, jordan. Up next, jeb bush makes his
first big economic speech as a prospective president ial candidate. First heres what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. Fox 5 in new york with a deadly commuter train crash in valhalla, 20 miles north of the city. Five people on the train were killed when it slammed into an suv stopped on the tracks. The driver of that vehicle also died. 15 people remain hospitalized tonight. Fox 11 in los angeles says california state lawmakers announce a new effort to increase vaccination rates. This comes after dozens have fallen ill from a Measles Outbreak traced to did kneesneyland. Representatives will try to change state requirements to target a small but vocal movement of parents who obtained personal belief exceptions for their children. This is a live look at detroit from our affiliate there, fox 2. Looks like a foggy detroit. The big story video of a coast guard rescue. Two members go into the river
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hes well groomed hes presentable. Reporter bush said weak Economic Growth is Holding People back because of failed liberal policies and did so in the hardhit city of detroit arguing the gap of rich and poor can be closed with conservative policies and win converts. Lets go where ideas will matter the most where the failures of liberal Government Policies are most obvious. Lets dlifr real conservative success. You know what will happen . Well create a whole lot of new conservatives. I think he would make a good next president. Reporter the son and brother of the last two republican president s trashed washington for relentless partisan gridlock. Its a company town and the company is government. Its all they know. For several years now they have been recklessly degrading the value of work the incentive to work and the rewards of work. Reporter bush plans 60 fundraisers in the next 70 days. Having seen potential rivals Chris Christie and rand paul criticized for being unclear in their initial remarks in the vaccine debate, bush was blunt. Parents ought to make sure
that their children are vaccinated. Reporter perhaps his best line came when asked about his Famous Family and he focused on his father. I love my dad. In fact my dad is the greatest man alive. If anybody disagrees, well go outside. Reporter bush steered clear of any economic specifics with the Iowa Caucuses still a year away. But Mike Huckabee chimed in hes been backing the fair tax for years and rand pauls spokesman said he laid out his plans with details more than a year ago. Theyre not official candidates yet, but the battle is already on. Carl cameron in detroit. Carl thanks. One of the features in president obamas Budget Proposal would clear the way for washington, d. C. , to legalize the Recreational Use of marijuana. That would make the district the latest location to pull the trigger on this issue. Tonight correspondent doug mcelway on the changing politics of pot. Reporter america has changed since president bill clintons mea culpa that he smoked marijuana but, quote didnt inhale. As evidence of that change check
out this 2014 campaign ad. And yes, i do inhale. Cannabis users shouldnt be subject to shame ostracized or marginalized. I hope youll help me bring that about, thank you very much. Reporter Ann Armstrong lost her race badly but with marijuana legal in four states and medical marijuana legal in three states many potential candidates are coming clean with cannabis confessions. Former Florida Governor jeb bush told the boston globe that he smoked during prep school. Quote, it was pretty common. A spokesman for senator ted cruz told the daily mail he foolishly experimented with marijuana. New jersey governor Chris Christie tweeted in 2012, the answer is no. And theres more. If i tell you that i havent, you wont believe me. Lets just say i wasnt a choir boy when i was in college. Have you ever smoked marijuana . No, i have not. I didnt do it when i was young, im not going to start now. I wish the conversation would sort of mature a little bit and move beyond whether politicians have used marijuana in the past. Frankly at this point most americans under 50 have used marijuana in the past. Whats important is what do you want to do about it now. Reporter senator rand paul is doing something about it, accusing jeb bush of hypocrisy. Hes against allowing medical marijuana. Thats illegal in florida and still jeb bush would keep that illegal. Reporter social conservatives fear the move to legalize is sending a bad message to young people. Bill bennett, the author of going to pot holds special blame for president obama. He had a unique opportunity to talk to young people about the dangers they are facing and he has avoided it over and over and over again and it is to great cost. Reporter but an earlier generation of young people were talked to extensively about drugs, those who were taught the dare program that was offered in 80 of schools. Studies show it was ineffective. One study found students who completed it had higher rates of hallucinogenic drug use than those who didnt complete it. Doug, thank you. Stocks were mixed today. The dow gained 7, the s p 500 dropped and the nasdaq lost 11. Still ahead, well take you to the First American city to put a special tax on sugary drinks and sodas. First, this former al qaeda operative says members of the saudi roya