The one i was in. No kidding. Apg and ak47. That did not happen. Now nbc news anchor Brian Williams is embarrassed. How bad is the damage to his credibility . Well take a look at it tonight. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching out us tonight. Whatever happened to human rights . That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. One of the core liberal principles is that human beings have certain rights. Here in the u. S. A. We have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, we are seeing gross violations of human rights all over the world. But sadly america and the western democracies are looking the other way. All throughout the muslim world, atrocities are occurring every single day. In general, women have few rights children are routinely abused. If you are a nonbeliever in islam, you are beneath contempt in many places. Of course, isis is the post err group for human rights violations. Yet, how many people they behead, set on fire, slaughter in the streets the reaction from the civilized world is muted to say the least. Yesterday on capitol hill Ashton Carter who president obama has nominated as the new secretary of defense was asked this very simple question by senator john mccain. Do you believe that we need to have a strategy to combat isis and the continued successes in many respects that they are achieving . Absolutely. Do you believe we have a strategy at this time . I believe i understand our strategy at this time, mr. Chairman. What do you understanded strategy to be . And to i think the um uh, uh strategy connects ends, and means and our ends with respect to isil needs to be its lasting defeat. It doesnt sound like a strategy to me. Me either. Mr. Carter is a very smart man but he cannot invent a strategy to defeat isis and because the Obama Administration does not have one, he was embarrassed at that hearing as you saw. Tomorrow, National Security advisor susan rice will apparently set forth some kind of strategy to fight isis at the Brookings Institute in washington. We will lead with what she says tomorrow night. Now, last june 18th i warned about the chaos in iraq caused by isis and al qaeda. But nothing was done. Then later on in the summer, we saw beheadings of american citizens by isis. Reaction . Tepid to say the least. Finally, president obama ordered isis to be bombed, okay. Okay. Now he is asking congress for new authorization to use military force against those bar barbarians. He will get that. He doesnt need it. But is he going to congress, fine. But then the president has to become engaged in the process is, something he has been reluctant to do. Well, maybe this will shake them up. A new report from the United Nations says isis is systematically killing, torturing and raping children in iraq. The u. N. Security council has expressed deep outrage. More nothing. In addition Amnesty International has released a report saying that young girls ages 10 to 12, 10 to 12 in iraq are being tortured raped, and forced into marriages with isis savages. So again whatever happened to resume human rights . Why is the entire world standing by and watching this take place . N america liberals should be pounding on the white house gate. Yet they are largely silent. Today in the New York Times the lead editorial was not about the isis atrocities or them abusing children. No, it was about abu ghraib and how some americans should be held accountable for what happened there 12 years ago. The times wrote that editorial because they fear the backlash against islamic terrorism so they want to make sure that everybody remembers the u. S. A. Has committed atrocities too. There are also terror deniers on the right. We will discuss that with Laura Ingraham later on. In the end, thousands more people will die, will be tortured unless president obama takes the lead in galvanizing the world to fight islamic terrorism. So far the president will not even say those words. So talking points is not very hopeful. And thats the memo. Now for the top story tonight. Reaction. Joining us from washington cully stempson from the Heritage Foundation and from flights, a former cia analyst. Well begin with you mr. Flies, what do you expect susan rice to say tomorrow. Bill, good evening. Susan rice is the president s Foreign Policy architect. She is primarily responsible for the confusion we have seen with the president s lack of strategy on radical islam or going against isis. I think she is going to double down. She is going to say that this is actually a fight against violent extremism. She is not going to use the word jihad or radical islam. She is going to claim successes in iraq and syria. Successes that we know are not there. We know what the president said recently trivializing the fight against radical islam, trying to say that we shouldnt claim it is an existential threat. Im sort of wondering while we had the the president saying that susan rice saying that, what is that strategy supposed to be . Okay, mr. Stempson, i cited the u. N. Report and the Amnesty International report that say at this very moment children, 10 years old, okay, being raped, tortured and the world as they did in the 1930s looking away. Not doing anything about 40 othousand isis fires at the most. Are you telling me that the world cant defeat these people in a week . Are you telling me that mr. Stempson. Im never going to tell you that bill, because its not true. The world leads American Leadership period. Why . Why cant Angela Merkel lead or the british lead . Because were not going to get it from barack obama. He doesnt have it in him. He doesnt. Why does the king of jordan come to the United States . Why do World Leaders come here . They are looking for us because of our unique capacity to push out the rule of law to express the things that matter like freedom, capitalism and liberty. We have the greatest armed forces in the world. We can lead if the president is willing to jump in here and lead. He doesnt care you know its unfair for me to say he doesnt care, from fleitz, i dont know that, i cant read his mind. If you have report after report after report and you have videotape of guys getting set on fire and american citizens beheaded and there he is going well, we are going to eventually degrade them and we are going to really stop them. And, i mean im saying there is 40,000 of these scum. 40,000. There is 100,000 jordanian troops, all right . Turkey has got a half million. All right. We have Rapid Deployment forces can get there in hours. They sit there and they dont do anything. Am i overstating this . Is there something the matter with me . Well i agree with what you are saying bill. But the jordanians are not going to defeat isis. Why not . Why cant the jordanians backed with u. S. Air power and u. S. Intel, why cant they go in, its 300 miles from raqqa why cant they go in and defeat them why . Jordan does not have sufficient ground troops. We got 88,000. Jordan has its own Security Problems in the country. They cant move all the Security Forces by invading syria. They are not about to invade syria. They have their own jihadist problem. All right. So lets say thats true mr. Stimson cant president obama put together an International Force in a few weeks that could go into raqqa and get these people . Is that impossible . Its not impossible. Remember, last august president obama said we didnt have a strategy. September 10th he gave a speech laying out the Broad Strokes of a strategy. Its 150 days later, tomorrow when susan rice is going to lay out and put meat on the strategy. Its past time to lay out the strategy. Its time to assemble the coalition, define hot coalition is, and then resource the coalition. Could you guys believe thats what needs to happen. Ashton carter was at the Kennedy School when i was there at harvard. He is a smart guy. Could you believe you how he looked when mccain asked him that question whats the strategy . This is the new secretary of defense coming in and thats what he had . Im shocked. I am absolutely shocked at what is happening here in this fight alleged fight on terror. I am absolutely stunned. Gentlemen, thanks very much. We appreciate it next on the rundown, head henry becoming very annoyed with the white house. Ed will be here. Nbc anchorman Brian Williams in big trouble. A fair and balanced look at his problem in a few moments. 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. 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All i know is the individuals we are discussing here are individuals who were convicted of terrorismrelated crimes they were individuals who were sentenced to death and these are individuals who had been serving time on death row. Joining us now from washington ed henry. You know, i dont know mr. Ernst may live in the Twilight Zone but nobody cares what his opinion is. Who cares what josh earnst thinks about the executions in jordan. We want to know what president obama thinks. Was that the right thing to do . Josh earnst i dont know the Justice System . Nobody cares what you think. Does the president think . Its pretty black and white. Is it a yes or no . Do you support the fact that there was retaliation. And number two i think more importantly moving forward, what we have been pressing josh earnst on do you support josh earnsts call for more weapons . Thats the real point of King Abdullah why he was here before this gruesome burning alive of the jordanian pilot. He was in washington saying look i want to lead this fight against isis but i have run out of weapons. Give me more nutrition. The Big Development today was you had nancy pelosi the House Democratic leader say she wants the white house to quote move quickly on getting the king more weapons. When you have nancy pelosi saying get off the dime you have got problems. But the Administration Still hasnt said whether they are going to get more weapons to jordan correct . They did say today they are going to give 400 million in more aid to jordan per year over the next few years. But as you are suggesting, thats long term. And thats great. Are you going to help them out or not . There is a crisis now, today. Right. We assume that the jordanians will get what they asked for. Susan rice you got any advance on that story what is is she going to say tomorrow. She is going to double down on this idea that Counter Terrorism cant be the central piece of our National Security strategy. Its something that Administration Officials laid out in 2010 the last time they put together a major National Security strategy. Its something that is supposed to be done annually. This white house has done it every five years saying look, we dont have to lay it out. We are going to do it every five years. The bottom line is the point of it is their strategy is look lets get off a war footing lets not just focus on Counter Terrorism and focus on a broader Foreign Policy. This week is a reminder Counter Terrorism is at the center of all of this. Dealing with islamic militants. So they may say its different, but this is the reality they are dealing with. I may be delusional, but i believe that the only reason rice is doing this going to brookings is because we have been putting relentless pressure on the Obama Administration you saw john mccain ask Ashton Carter about the strategy. John mccain was on this program earlier this week and i asked him. Dont tell me there is no linkage there. Every congressman in the country watches this program and knows we as a country have no strategy to stop the raping of the 10yearolds in iraq, putting people on fire beheading people we are going to degrade them. How much more has to happen . And remember, as the administration lays out this strategy again saying we want to. They are going to get hammered, if they do that tomorrow, she is going to get hammered. He is sending a new authorization of military force to deal with isis to congress thats basically a declaration of war. We want to get off a war footing but we got to go to war with isis. They are saying two different things. If rice goes in there and believe United States and all bs tomorrow, they are going to its going to be you are going to have fodder. Ernst is. Just tell josh because i dont know him. He looks like a good guy, i dont know. Just tell him we dont really care what he thinks, all right . We want to know what the president thinks. Im not going to throw a pencil at him though. Im not going to do that. You are a better man than i. Brian williams not telling the truth about an incident in iraq. Then later Laura Ingraham on some conservative americans who want to sit out the isis conflict as well. Factor is coming right back. D with this runny nose. I better take something. Dayquill cold and flu doesnt treat your runny nose. Seriously . Alkaseltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. Oh, what a relief it is. Why do people count on Sunsweet Amazin prune juice to stay fit on the inside . Its made only from prunes nothing else. Its works, simple as that. Its a natural source of fiber and five essential vitamins. Try Sunsweet Amazin prune juice. Also available in light. Personal story segment tonight. Nbc news anchorman Brian Williams apologizing for not telling the truth. The situation is kind of complicated. In 2003, mr. Williams visited iraq, reporting from there. 10 years later, he said this about the situation. We were in some helicopters, what we didnt know was we were north of the invasion. We were the northern most americans in iraq. We were going to drop some bridge portions across the euphrates so the third infantry could cross on them. Two of our four helicopters were hit by ground fire including the one i was in. No kidding. Rpg and ak 47. What altitude were you at. Only 100 feet doing 100 forward knots because we had these massive pieces of bridges beaten neath beneath us. What what happens. We figure out who land safely and we did. The military newspaper stars and stripes exposed mr. Williams saying the story wasnt true. So last night the anchorman apologized. This was a bungled attempt by me to thank one special veteran and by extension, our brave military men and Women Veterans everywhere, those who are served while i did not. I hope they know they have my greatest respect and also now my apology. Joining us now from washington to analyze, lauren ash burn and howard kurtz host of media buzz seen at sundays 11 30 a. M. We saw Hillary Clinton say she was under fire in the balkans, wasnt true. Saw Richard Blumenthal say he served in vietnam that was false but people elected him to the senate anyway. Is this case any different . People expect politicians to fudge the truth. A journalist doesnt have that luxury because he depends on the audiences trust. This is a huge credibility crisis for Brian Williams at nbc because when the Top Rated Network anchor tells a story and he we peteedly tells a story that is blatantly false people wonder why would a journalist of his stat tour do such a thing . Well, do you have an answer for that question that wandering question . I have turned this over in my mind again and again. Maybe he convinced himself this happened it was 12 years ago. It is inexplicable to me. When he first reported this in 2003, its on tame. He told it ache rathly that it wasnt his chopper that was hit it was another helicopter. All right. So you dont know why he did it. Do you know why he did it, lauren . No. I havent talked to him. I dont know why he did it. He says well, thats just how he remembered it he misremembered it look, bill, this is the biggest slap in the face to veterans. They have a network news anchor jettying in and telling a war story line about what happened on the scene and then they are the ones that have to correct him . He is a journalist. He should know so much better. And nbc news has to reprimand